(December 18, 2011 at 1:42 am)Perhaps Wrote:(December 17, 2011 at 2:01 pm)whateverist Wrote: 1.) What are the best positions/attributes a Christian could have and still want to call herself a Christian?
2.) Have you ever met a Christian that met your ideal? (If not, are there any fairly famous ones you suspect might?)
3.) How fond/approving of such a Christian could you be? Would you be happy to have one: .. move next door? .. become a fishing buddy? .. marry your daughter?! .. marry you?!?!
1.) Open minded, skeptical, thoughtful, studied other religions, intellectual, answer seeking, devoted.
2.) yes, John Wilkinson - author of No Argument for God
3.) If I meet anyone, no matter what religion they ascribe to, who has the attributes listed in number one I would gladly have [edit:] them as a neighbor, best friend, son-in-law, or spouse.
Hmm. I guess I felt obliged to work in some stance toward the issues a christian would likely need addressed in order to recognize my ideal as being about Christians.
I guess you're saying that so long as they exhibited these traits you wouldn't be concerned with how they squared their faith with science or what exactly they believed. That is probably more fair for being less demanding.
I think I secretly want to redeem Christians by showing them how they can hold their religion without closing themselves off from the larger world. So far I have zero success stories.
